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2 Because of those things, the most important thing that I encourage believers to do is to continually pray to God on behalf of everyone. They should ask God for what they need, and also for what other people need, and they should thank God for everything that he does. 2 They should pray for kings and for everyone who governs over others so that we can live peacefully and quietly. That way we can do all that God and others consider to be right and proper. 3 It is good to pray like that, and it pleases God, who saves us. 4 God desires to save all people. He wants everyone to fully know and accept his true message. 5 That is because there is only one God of everyone, and there is only one person who can bring God and human beings together. That person is the Messiah Jesus, who is human himself. 6 He willingly died as a sacrifice in order to rescue all people from sin and death. He died at the perfect time, and his death showed that God desires to save all people. 7 It is to declare this message that God has appointed me to speak for him and has sent me to represent him. As surely as I belong to the Messiah, I am telling the truth. I am not lying! God sent me to teach those who are not Jews that they should believe God’s true message.
8 Therefore, I want men in every place where believers worship to pray to God. They should live in a way that pleases God, lifting their hands to pray rather than because they are angry or quarreling with someone. 9 Similarly, when gathering to worship God, the women should wear appropriate clothing that is modest and sensible. They should not try to beautify themselves with elaborate hairstyles, or gold jewelry, or pearls, or expensive clothing. 10 Instead, they should beautify themselves by doing the things that women who claim to worship God should do. That is, they should be doing good things for other people. 11 Women should learn quietly from the leaders of the congregation, remaining subordinate to them at all times. 12 But I do not allow women to teach men, nor to have authority over men. Instead, women should remain quiet. 13 After all, God made Adam first, and afterwards he made Eve, 14 and the snake did not deceive Adam. The snake deceived the woman so that she did what God had told her not to do, and she become a sinner. 15 But even though she did that, God will save women, although they must still endure the pain of bearing children, if they continue to trust in God, and to love others, and to live in a way that pleases God, and to behave sensibly.